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No. 227,715. Patented-May 18', 1880.

WITNESSE I INVENTO L @ZM/M Z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BAILEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR T0 JENNISON O.HALL, OF SAME PLACE. I

TEMPO RARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,715, dated May is,1880,

I Application filed December 10, 1879.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. BAILEY, of the city and county ofProvidence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Temporary Binders, and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention has reference to improvements in binders in which lettersor other papers can be secured togummed strips; and it consists in adetachable back, flexible inside covers, and index-sheets bound togetherand temporarily placed within a strong outside cover, to which they aresecured and held until the binder is filled, when they can be readilyremoved and a new set inserted, all of which will be more fully setforth hereinafter.

Figure l is a view of the back and covers ready to receive the insertedbinder. The staple by means of which it is secured is shown above theback. Fig. 2 is a view showing the binder ready.to be inserted in theoutside covers; and Fig. 3 shows the binder with the index-sheetssecured within the flexible inside covers, one of which is removed so asto dis another metal plate, secured at the end of the back opposite tothe end on which the plate 0 is secured. The plate d is provided withthe lip e, which enters either into the slit 0 in the block of gummedstubs ot' the removable binder G, as shown in Fig. 2, or in front of theprojecting end of the block of gummed stubs, as shown in Fig. 3. v

f is the back of the removable binder, consistin g of a number of narrowstrips of paper or other suitable material, one side of which is gummed,so that letters or other sheets of paper can .be ,readily secured bysimply wetting the gummed side of one. of these strips. These gummedstrips are bound together so as to form ablock of gummed stubs, and areprovided with a stout sheet to form the covers, and with an alphabeticalregister. The cut 0 is now made in one end-of the block of gummed stubs;or the portion of the strips f in front of the lip, 0 may be cut away,as in Fig. 3, so that the rear portion will enter beh nd the lip c andthe other end pass uncompleted book, with its index and covering sheets,can be removed and stored away, forming a complete book, in which anypaper can be readily found if properly indexed. A new binder is nowinserted into the outside covers and the process repeated.

Books provided with either the slit 6 or the projection at the back maybe inserted in of the binder Gr, consisting of covering-sheets andindex-leaves bound together with the block of gummed stubs f and thestaple c substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM H. BAILEY. Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER,

J OSEPH A. MILLER, Jr.

